Sullivan 4K Bilingual Paraprofessional

Promotes efforts on diversity, establishes best practices and utilizes skills to remove barriers for students of diverse backgrounds.

2. Creates a favorable professional impact on students, parents, community, and other employees.

3. Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communication.

4. Refers confidential information to the appropriate person.

5. Follows safe practices and adheres to safety standards.

6. Supports instruction, tutoring and supervision of individual students or small groups of students;

7. Assists with classroom management and monitoring of student behavior;

8. Prepares classroom materials, projects, demonstrations and visual displays;

9. Monitors and scores tests and class assignments;

10. Assists with clerical duties, such as keeping attendance records.

11. Collects fees and performing general housekeeping duties.

12. Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.

13. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.

14. Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interest, and abilities.

15.Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.

16. Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.

17. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.

18. Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.

19. Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.

20. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.

21. Assists students in the library or media center.

22. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.

23. Helps students with their clothing, wash-up, and toilet routines, as necessary.

24. Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines, as necessary.

25. Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.

26. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.

27. Practices ethical and professional standards of conduct, including confidentiality.

28. Applies work-related legal issues concerning the education of children and youth.

29. Adheres and follows work-related health, safety, and emergency procedures and practices.

30. Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communication.

31. Refers confidential information to the appropriate person.

32. Rides the bus to support students as assigned by Supervisor.

33. Performs all other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Reads and translates a variety of materials (e.g., letters, instructional materials, brochures, articles, handbooks, bulletins, Individualized Education Plans (IEP), student records) in Spanish and/or English.

34. Supports Spanish speaking students and parents in the completion of required paperwork.

35. Verifies the translations made by other District staff for the purpose of reviewing and editing materials for accuracy, context, readability, grammar and style.

36. Supports other District staff when needed for the purpose of providing Spanish translation services.

37. Interprets between English and Spanish speaking individuals at meetings and conferences when needed and upon request.